In the next image below, you can see that all the leads are the same size. It's not impossible for the wires to all be the same size, but i'd want to test any cable like that before accepting it was S-Video. The official Sony S-Video cables had a thicker strand like this for the S-Video connection too. It's double-coax, to transmit the Luma and Chroma signals and their respective grounds. In the first picture below, the S-Video lead of this combined S-Video Composite lead is using thicker cable. You can tell if most cables are S-Video by looking closely, though it may not be a perfect method. A lot of cheaper S-Video cables for different consoles do this. If so, the signal you're getting from the cable isn't S-Video it's just using an S-Video plug, and not really any better than using straight composite cables, as i understand things. Not to be down on you, but are you certain yours is S-Video? A multimeter would show whether the centre-plug of the yellow AV lead is connected to *any* of the S-Video pins (resistance would show a zero value).

Hopefully C-sync is going to work on these TVs.) I might buy a SCART cable and use that instead of the component cable, then, if anyone can tell me that the pinouts above can go straight to VGA the way i thought? (I don't have a TV that takes SCART, only YPbPr, S-video, VGA, HMDI and USB. I know i can probably open it an just wire right to the video pins, but i'm trying not to do that yet. PLEASE DO NOT TRY ANY OF THE ABOVE - until someone who knows more than me can confirm it's a good ideaĮDIT: Shit, i just realised i need to get C-sync out of the console too. Answers to any or all of these questions will be greatly appreciated

Sorry for being such a noob! Great forum you guys have here, and glad to be able to contribute an idea, though it's probably completely harebrained. What source/plugs do TV's displaying VGA normally pull audio from?ĭoes anyone know if any or all of the above is correct? *Can* i use the common video ground of the PS1 into all three video grounds on VGA like that? Are all ground types common to both? Does VGA run at different impedance, or with different capacitance in the the lines? Or will i need to deliver audio down the VGA cable as well, and how? I do have some old logitech PC speakers that will take RCA, though might need an amp. I would expect to leave the audio leads on the component cable alone. VGA pinouts (looking into Male plug from outside)Ģ GREEN -> Green Video (75 ohm, 0.7 V p-p)ģ BLUE -> Blue Video (75 ohm, 0.7 V p-p)ĩ KEY - Key (No pin) / Optional +5V output from graphics cardġ1 ID0 Horizontal Sync (or Composite Sync)ġ4 VSYNC -> Vertical Sync which works also as data clockġ5 SCL <- I2C data clock in DDC2, Monitor ID3 in DDC1Īssuming for the moment that i have this right, in order to deliver a complete video signal at the best quality, i should connect.

Playstation 2 board pure rgb sync